Next week, my second young adult novel will be out.  I don't think there was any intention on my publisher's part to release this book during National Poetry Month, but it's apropro just the same.  You see, Nola and her younger sister Song speak in a special language — the language of haiku. As Nola says, "For the longest time it's been our own code. Other kids speak in pig Latin, we speak in 5-7-5."  When Nola spends the summer working at a resort in Maine (in part to escape the hardships...